From: 7stud -- Newsgroups: comp.lang.ruby Subject: Re: String.gsub with regex and block Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2011 13:10:15 -0500 Organization: Service de news de lacave.net Lines: 27 Message-ID: <2aaa7891436b722893ab4c050c9de9d0@ruby-forum.com> References: <0be3e165974797b12de3053911b6f7e2@ruby-forum.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: bristol.highgroove.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: talisker.lacave.net 1302199835 76445 65.111.164.187 (7 Apr 2011 18:10:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@lacave.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2011 18:10:35 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: <0be3e165974797b12de3053911b6f7e2@ruby-forum.com> X-Received-From: This message has been automatically forwarded from the ruby-talk mailing list by a gateway at comp.lang.ruby. If it is SPAM, it did not originate at comp.lang.ruby. Please report the original sender, and not us. Thanks! For more details about this gateway, please visit: http://blog.grayproductions.net/categories/the_gateway X-Mail-Count: 381140 X-Ml-Name: ruby-talk X-Rubymirror: Yes X-Ruby-Talk: <2aaa7891436b722893ab4c050c9de9d0@ruby-forum.com> Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!news.stben.net!talisker.lacave.net!lacave.net!not-for-mail Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.ruby:2479 Alexey Petrushin wrote in post #991484: > Probably a stupid question, but is there a way to use :gsub replacement > without $0 $1 $2 $3 (and without "\0\1\2\3")? Where are you replacing anything? > I would prefer something like: > > "John Smith".gsub /(.+)\s(.+)/ do |name, family| > p [name, family] > > # instead of this > p [$1, $2] > end "John Smith".scan(/\S+/) do |match| puts match end --output:-- John Smith -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.